It takes experience to know what is a catastrophe (Richard…

Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul…

— L. Neil Smith

“How someone wants to explain catastrophe isn't important--that's what I know now. When shit happens, it doesn't really matter what asshole is responsible.”

— Catherine Lacey

“But I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different -…

— Karen Thompson Walker

And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems…

— Malcolm X

When the regime changed in Japan, the Japanese changed; Russians too can change, as long as the conditions for it are present once again.…

— Vladimir Voinovich

All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only…

— Leon Trotsky

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and…

— Margaret Heffernan

“War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.”

— Ruta Sepetys

We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred…

— David Suzuki

It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who…

— Mike Nichols

Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements…

— Harold Bloom

To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen of this…

— Rick Snyder

“..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide...”

— Michel Leiris

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their…

— John Playfair